Well, Big 12 conference play is here, and we are officially full steam ahead.

I'm Pete Mundo.

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So non-conference is over. There was some good, some bad, and some ugly from the previous weekend.

But you know what? It's now all Big 12 all the time, baby, just how we like you.

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for doing that. So we've got a full slate of conference games this week. And well, not a full slate. We've got four games this weekend that we're going to be talking to you about throughout the show. But the overriding theme for me

is that the Big 12 closed out non-conference play in very good fashion. There were a couple of

ugly moments, most notably the ugliest of course of moments I believe came over the

weekend with TCU losing to SMU. Here was a top 25 team and that defense is so good, it is so deep,

it had a bad game, it overlooked SMU coming off the big game against Purdue and it was a huge

letdown and a huge disappointment.

And I'm crushed for the Big 12 that TCU lost that game because here's what's going to happen.

TCU is going to be competitive.

In every Big 12 game, it's going to win several Big 12 games.

If it picks off one of the top dogs in the Big 12, people are going to look back and say,

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